Phuti Mosomane and Jonathan Paoli
Former President Jacob Zuma was admitted at Escort Correctional facility on Friday morning but shortly released, Minister of Justice and Correctional Services Ronald Lamola said.
Lamola said that the special remission process was granted by President Cyril Ramaphosa to low-risk offenders in an effort to address overcrowding in prisons and Zuma is a beneficiary and was released after just over an hour in prison. Zuma was sentenced to a 15-month sentence in prison for being in contempt of the Constitutional Court order.
The acting Correctional Services Commissioner Makgothi Thobakgale made his decision to admit Zuma back in prison following the Supreme Court finding which revoked a previous decision to grant the former president a parole.
“Former president Jacob Zuma is one of the beneficiaries of this decision as a low-risk offender. This decision will result in the deportation of 3 064 foreign nationals serving short-term
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